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I love that Apple cares about privacy when just about every other megacorp is a really fancy advertising agency
by forgotpassagan 9y ago
I love that Apple cares about privacy when just about every other megacorp is a really fancy advertising agency
- eh78ssxv2f 9y agoCan somebody explain how it helps with the privacy? Assuming most of the users of the browser are on the latest version, it implies that majority of users are already sharing the same useragent. How does useragent version # helps with reducing the fingerprint?
- Terretta 9y agoIt’s freezing to a static version, everyone would have the same static (frozen) version from now on, not a build number. So you can’t use it as part of a finger print. https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/commit/4bc237458115ac916f396d7b570e925f0ca9975a https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/commit/4bc237458115ac916f39... Also suggests you’d need to do capability detection other ways in future.